The marketing people for The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies are drip feeding us new material on twitter. Three new posters in the last three days, two of which are for characters who weren’t in the book.

Bilbo and Gandalf get their own one sheets for the upcoming third chapter in the Hobbit series. Just think: about a hundred posters, 6 trailers, and just one movie more and we can finally be done with this.

Posted by Matthewon July 23, 2014Posters /
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The Hobbit: The desolation of Smaug was a long movie titled “The Hobbit” which didn’t feature much of the titular hobbit. If this poster is any indication the concluding film in the series will be much the same.

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Posted by Matthewon April 24, 2014News /
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This has been brewing for a while and I never posted about it, but now it’s actually happened so here you go. The Hobbit: There and Back Again has officially been renamed The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies. Which makes sense for a couple of reasons. Hit the jump to see Peter Jackson’s reasoning and some commentary.

Peter Jackson is an interesting film maker. A background in indie films, specifically indie horror films, he was raised to the top of the A-List when he successfully pulled off adapting J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy to the big screen. Those movies are not perfect by any stretch but the books were so rich and full of detail that the theatrical releases actually felt like they were lacking despite being a combined length of over 9 hours.

Now we’re on the second part of his adaptation of The Hobbit, the book that preceded the epic trilogy that was The Lord of the Rings. That book however is actually pretty short and while it has enough detail to serve the story’s purpose it has nowhere near the depth or scope that the later trilogy does.

Herein lies one of the problems with The Desolation of Smaug: You can’t turn a 300 page book into 9 hours of movie without padding the story, and Jackson has padded the story so much, and messed up the pacing so much, that while I don’t think it’s a bad film I also don’t think it’s a great one.

A whole slew of new posters have been released for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Seven are character posters mostly for new and more heavily featured characters in the second film plus an new theatrical poster!